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  • The Political Life of Children

    by Robert Coles ...
    A groundbreaking study of the impact of current events on the lives and minds of children from the Pulitzer Prize-winning child psychiatrist.Most parents teach their children the lessons and skills they need to function in the world while trying to shield them from the harsher realities of life. But long before children are considered ready to face the complications of the real world, they are ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Call of Stories

    Teaching and the Moral Imagination

    by Robert Coles ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Children of Crisis, a profound examination of how listening to stories promotes learning and self-discovery.As a professor emeritus at Harvard University, a renowned child psychiatrist, and the author of more than forty books, including The Moral Intelligence of Children, Robert Coles knows better than anyone the transformative power of learning and ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Story of Ruby Bridges

    by Robert Coles ...
    Illustrated by George Ford ...
    The inspirational true story of Ruby Bridges.The year is 1960, and six-year-old Ruby Bridges and her family have recently moved from Mississippi to New Orleans in search of a better life. When a judge orders Ruby to attend first grade at William Frantz Elementary, an all-white school, Ruby must face angry mobs of parents who refuse to send their children to school with her. Told with Robert Coles' ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Moral Life of Children

    by Robert Coles ...
    An in-depth investigation from the renowned child psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author: "Fascinating."— Los Angeles Times Book ReviewIn this searching, vivid inquiry, Robert Coles shows how children struggle with questions of moral choice. Bringing to life the voices of children from a rich diversity of backgrounds, including regions plagued by poverty or social unrest, he explores their ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chekhov's Doctors

    A Collection Of Chekhov's Medical Tales

    Edited by Coulehan ...
    In his brief but distinguished life, Anton Chekhov was a doctor, a documentary essayist, an admired dramatist, and a humanitarian. He remains a nineteenth-century Russian literary giant whose prose continues to offer moral insight and to resonate with readers across the world.Chekhov experienced no conflict between art and science or art and medicine. He believed that knowledge of one complemented ... Read more

    $14.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lives We Carry with Us

    Profiles of Moral Courage

    by Robert Coles ...
    Lives We Carry with Us gathers together for the first time a diverse cross section of Coles's profiles, originally published in our premier magazines over the span of five decades but never before collected in book form. Depicting the famous, the lesser known, and the unknown, the profiles here include portraits of James Agee, Dorothy Day, Erik Erikson, Dorothea Lange, Walker Percy, Bruce ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Simone Weil

    A Modern Pilgrimage

    by Dr. Robert Coles ...
    A brilliant portrait of a beloved and controversialfigure in twentieth-century spirituality.Simone Weil (1906-1943) was a writer and philosopher who devoted her life to a search for God—while avoiding membership in organized religion. She wrote with the clarity of a brilliant mind educated in the best French schools, the social conscience of a grass-roots labor organizer, and the certainty and ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When Invisible Children Sing

    by Chi Cheng Huang ...
    Expecting to treat some mildly ill children from the streets of Bolivia on a quick “service trip,” an idealistic young medical student gets more than he bargained for when he takes a year off from Harvard Medical School to work at an orphanage in La Paz. As he comes to know the children, and sees how they live, Chi Huang is drawn deeper and deeper into their complex and desperate lives. The doctor ... Read more

    $13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Life in Medicine

    A Literary Anthology

    by Robert Coles, Randy Testa, Wendell Berry, Raymond Carver, Anton Chekhov, Anne Fadiman, Kay Redfield Jamison, Audre Lorde, Lorrie Moore, Rachel Naomi Remen, Lewis Thomas, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams ...
    "Excellent" poetry and prose about physicians and their patients, by Raymond Carver, Kay Redfield Jamison, Rachel Naomi Remen, and more ( Library Journal).A Life in Medicine collects stories, poems, and essays by and for those in the healing profession, who are struggling to keep up with the science while staying true to the humanitarian goals at the heart of their work. Organized around the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Call Of Service

    by Robert Coles ...
    In this book, Coles explores the concept of idealism and why it necessary to the individual and society.What are the satisfactions—and the hazards—of a life dedicated to others?Kinds of Service: From social and political struggle in the Civil Rights movement to quiet personal gestures, Coles provides a rich taxonomy of what it means to help.Psychology of Altruism: A compassionate look at the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Spiritual Life of Children

    by Robert Coles ...
    A look at faith through the voices of children from varied religious backgrounds, by the Pulitzer-winning author of The Moral Intelligence of Children.A New York Times Notable BookWhat do children think about when they consider God, Heaven and Hell, the value of life in the here and now, and the inevitability of death? Child psychiatrist, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer, and Harvard professor Robert ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Geography of Faith

    Underground Conversations on Religious, Political and Social Change

    by Dr. Robert Coles, Daniel Berrigan, S.J. ...
    A classic of faith-based activism―updated for a new generation. Why was Daniel Berrigan wanted by the FBI? Why did Robert Coles harbor a fugitive? Listen in to the conversations between these two great teachers as they struggle with what it means to put your faith to the test. Discover how their story of challenging the status quo during a time of great political, religious, and social change is ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus